• VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    You have an island governed by a democratically elected government, with a population that from what I remember mostly doesn’t want to be assimilated into the PRC. The PRC taking it by force seems like it would be rather imperialistic.

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      5 months ago

      democratically elected? arguable and only for the last few decades at that. it was run as a brutal single party dictatorship backed by amerikkka until fairly recently. And last time i checked the vast majority of people in Taiwan want to maintain the status quo which is that Taiwan is part of China.

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        5 months ago

        Yeah, fuck the KMT. But as you have recognised, they aren’t a dictatorship anymore.

        And the status quo is that they are de facto a small independent island nation, that is de jure claiming mainland China.